Congratulations to the #MIKidsCanDance Finalists!

Earlier this year, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan called on Michigan youth dance teams to show us their best moves on Instagram for a chance to win the opportunity to perform with the Detroit Pistons Mob Squad and other great prizes.

We received more than 40 entries for the #MIKidsCanDance contest from studios across Michigan including teams from Detroit, Oak Park, West Bloomfield, Zeeland, Ishpeming and many others.

The judging panel from BCBSM and the Detroit Pistons are working to select one grand prize winner and two runner-up finalists based on choreography concept, execution, musicality, showmanship and performance.

As many as 15 members of the winning dance organization will perform with the Mob Squad during the March 24 Pistons pregame show and receive choreography training from Oscar Hernandez, Mob Squad director, prior to the event. In addition, the winning group will take part in “The Drop,” a one-day event offering master classes instructed by a carefully selected group of top choreographers in the dance industry. The dancers will also receive game tickets for themselves and guests.

booooo to this contest. It was poorly ran, the voting process was not done correctly, and by looking at the finalists, there is no way they got more votes than some of the other talented groups that we all saw on there. We know people that voted for days in every way possible that could have easily been hundreds but teams with 15 seconds of basically nothing or openings of a dance are chosen as finalists? Fishy.